[ICTs-and-Society] Call for Abstracts: ESA RN18 Conference “Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism“

[Christian Fuchs]

Dear colleagues,

Following up on the success of the Uppsala conference, I want to make 
you aware of a related interesting critical conference that I am helping 
to organise. The focus will not only be on Internet and social media as 
in the Uppsala conference (although such contributions are also much 
welcome), but more broadly on media, communication, capitalism, critique 
and crisis today.

European Sociological Association (ESA): Research Network 18 – Sociology 
of Communications and Media Research
Conference “Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism“
October 18-20, 2012. University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Abstract submission deadline: May 31st
Submission information:
http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/ESA_RN18_CfP2012.pdf

In my role as chair of the European Sociological Association’s (ESA) 
Research Network 18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research, I 
want to invite you to submit abstracts for presentations at the RN18 
conference “Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary 
Capitalism“. The deadline for submission is approaching – May 31st.

The conference will provide opportunities for presenting ideas in the 
field of the critical study of media, communication & society, for 
networking, and for meeting people working in this research area. It 
will feature the keynote talk “Why a Sociologist should take 
Communications and Media Seriously” by Peter Golding, who is not only a 
leading scholar in the political economy of media and communication, but 
also founded RN18 and is its honorary chair. The conference will take 
place in Bilbao, which is a great city to visit in autumn.

Membership in the ESA and RN18 provides reduced participation fees both 
for the bi-annual ESA conference and the bi-annual RN18 conference and 
furthermore gives you access to a great community of scholars interested 
in critical studies of media, communication & society.
http://www.europeansociology.org/member/

RN18 also has a mailing list, to which you can subscribe here:
http://lists.jacobs-university.de/mailman/listinfo/esa-rn18

Best,

Christian Fuchs
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Chair of ESA RN18 – Sociology of Communications and Media Research
http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of-communications-and-media-research.html